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Don’t miss the significance of the Biden-Putin discussion of the Arctic
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The view from the plane carrying Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Greenland's Kangerlussuaq Airport on May 20. (Saul Loeb/Pool/AFP/AP)
By
Philip Bump
National correspondent
June 16, 2021 at 2:49 p.m. PDT
You may recall that a few months ago, a large container vessel got stuck in the Suez Canal. This spurred a lot of international attention, both from the standpoint of the inherent humor of the situation and from the standpoint of its contribution to the existing struggles of the global shipping system.
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The Russian government, though, saw opportunity.
“The incident in the Suez Canal should make everyone think about diversifying strategic sea routes amid the increasing scope of sea shipping,” Russia’s envoy for international cooperation in the Arctic, Nikolai Korchunov, said at the time. Happily, Korchunov had an alternative in mind: the Northern Sea Route, what might in American vernacular be described as akin to the Northwest Passage.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/16/dont-miss-significance-biden-putin-discussion-arctic/
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